EMW at Jazzkaar Festival

Part Three: the Understated Fusion of ELLIP

VINCENT TEETSOV

Jazzkaar Festival is over now, and as you’d want from any good music festival, it has left attendees with an engaged musical brain on multiple levels.

There was a session of morning yoga soundtracked by double bass player Mingo Rajandi. Performers and composers discussed the fate of big band jazz. Singer Stig Rästa, of Eurovision fame, sang his hits alongside a song to get kids excited about brushing their teeth. And, as shown in the last two parts of this series, bands from across Europe and the US got to the core of jazz.

The curation of a jazz festival’s lineup is an interesting thing, isn’t it? Jazz at Lincoln Center – a key cultural institution in New York City – describes jazz as “a metaphor for Democracy. Because jazz is improvisational, it celebrates personal freedom and encourages individual expression.”

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ELLIP live.

Photo: Martin Ahven